Decision making plays an important role in economics, psychology, philosophy, mathematics, statistics and many other fields. In each field, decision making consists of identifying the values, uncertainties and other issues that define the decision. In any field, the nature of the decisions is affected by environmental characteristics. In this paper, we are considered the production planning pro...

Dependability benchmarks should provide costeffective ways to evaluate the behavior of components and computer systems in the presence of faults, allowing the quantification of dependability attributes or the characterization of the systems into well defined dependability classes. Beyond existing evaluation techniques, a dependability benchmark should represent an agreement accepted by the comp...

Biological taxonomy is at the heart of species identifications. Such identifications are instrumental in biodiversity studies, ecological assessment, and phylogenetic analysis, among other studies. Fuzzy measures and classification integration was used to analyze shape groups of the diatom Asterionella using fuzzy Fourier shape coefficients and fuzzy morphometric measures. Based on this analysi...

We present the architecture of an intelligent broker for enabling the use of problem-solving methods via the World Wide Web (WWW). The core component of such a broker is realised by an ontologist and an adapter. Ontologies mediate between domainspecific requirements and knowledge, task-specific problem descriptions and methodspecific terms describing the competence and requirements of the reaso...

Intrepid has a very-large, production GPFS storage system consisting of 128 file servers, 32 storage controllers, 1152 disk arrays, and 11,520 total disks. In such a large system, performance problems are both inevitable and difficult to troubleshoot. We present our experiences, of taking an automated problem diagnosis approach from proof-of-concept on a 12-server test-bench parallel-filesystem...

Robust design optimization (RDO) problems can generally be formulated by incorporating uncertainty into the corresponding deterministic problems. In this context, a careful formulation of deterministic equality constraints into the robust domain is necessary to avoid infeasible designs under uncertain conditions. The challenge of formulating equality constraints is compounded in multiobjective ...

In this paper we discuss how the interests and field theory promoted by public administration as a stakeholder in policy argumentation, directly arise from its problem solving activities, using the framework for public administration problem solving we proposed in [1,2]. We propose that calls for change of policy in public administration mainly arise from model-based diagnosis problem solving.

Clinicians confront the classical problem of decision making under uncertainty, but a universal procedure by which they deal with this situation, both in diagnosis and therapy, can be defined. This consists in the choice of a specific course of action from available alternatives so as to reduce uncertainty. Formal analysis evidences that the expected value of this process depends on the a prior...